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jet

/ˈd͡ʒɛt/noun, verb, adjective

jet is spelled J-E-T: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 19 times per million words in written English, the 4,365th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, jet means “A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of jet is jets.

How many letters and syllables are in jet?

Letters3: J-E-T
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing19 times per million words; the 4,365th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is jet?

Jet appears 19 times per million words in written English, the 4,365th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce jet?

  • /ˈd͡ʒɛt/

Jet has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-jet.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with jet

Also written: jess.

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with jet?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as jet.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: tej.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of jet

  • jets plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • jetting participle, present
  • jetted participle, past
  • jess
  • jetter comparative
  • more jet comparative
  • jettest superlative
  • most jet superlative

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does jet mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A collimated stream, spurt or flow of liquid or gas from a pressurized container, an engine, etc.

  2. 2

    A spout or nozzle for creating a jet of fluid.

  3. 3

    A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers.

  4. 4

    A turbine.

  5. 5

    A rocket engine.

  6. 6

    A part of a carburetor that controls the amount of fuel mixed with the air.

  7. 7

    A narrow cone of hadrons and other particles produced by the hadronization of a quark or gluon.

  8. 8

    datedDrift; scope; range, as of an argument.

  9. 9

    A hard, black form of coal, sometimes used in jewellery.

  10. 10

    The colour of jet coal, deep grey.

  11. 11

    an operation that takes a differentiable function f and produces a polynomial, the Taylor polynomial (truncated Taylor series) of f, at each point of its domain.

verb

  1. 1

    To spray out of a container.

  2. 2

    To spray with liquid from a container.

    Farmers may either dip or jet sheep with chemicals.

  3. 3

    To travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion

  4. 4

    To move (running, walking etc.) rapidly around

  5. 5

    To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.

  6. 6

    To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.

  7. 7

    To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.

  8. 8

    To adjust the fuel to air ratio of a carburetor; to install or adjust a carburetor jet

adjective

  1. 1

    Propelled by turbine engines.

    jet airplane

  2. 2

    Very dark black in colour.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Jet in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchjet (stream of fluid), gicleur (spout or nozzle), jaillir (to spray with liquid, to gush, to spurt), à réaction (propelled by turbine engines), jais (coal), noir de jais (colour)
GermanStrahl (stream of fluid), spritzen (to spray with liquid, to gush, to spurt), Gagat, Jett (coal), jetten (to travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet…)
Portuguesejato (stream of fluid), bocal (spout or nozzle), jorrar (to spray with liquid, to gush, to spurt), azeviche (coal)
Spanishchorro, chorreón, chorretada, chorretón, manguerazo (stream of fluid), turborreactor (engine)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does jet come from?

Borrowed from French jet (“spurt”, literally “a throw”), from Old French get, giet, from Vulgar Latin *iectus, *jectus, from Latin iactus (“a throwing, a throw”), from iacere (“to throw”). See abject, ejaculate, gist, jess, jut. Cognate with Spanish echar.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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